I was a fringe member of the team that launched the HOT ROD Power Tour. I'm fortunate to have been involved in the earliest days of Fastest Street Car racing and proud of later creating the Pump Gas Drags and Drag Week events. The failures are many and will live forever in print, so let's talk wins. People often ask me about my biggest mistakes or victories.
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Angus MacKenzie was my final boss in print, and he valued editorial in a way that only a seasoned pro can he also enabled my current video career. Our super-boss was Doug Evans, who always had my back in the style of the Marine that he is. I worked for two publishers during my editorship of HOT ROD and was lucky to have them both: Ira Gabriel and Jerry Pitt.
Reiss, along with art hero Alan Alpanian, ramrodded the massive redesign of HOT ROD in 2004, and we overhauled it again years later with Edwin Alpanian.
Two fantastic bosses who really understood magazine craft were Mike Nicks under the ownership of EMAP and Craig Reiss under Primedia. He was the last president who had once been the editor or publisher of the magazines he oversaw. He said, "You just ended your career," but nonetheless handed me subsequent promotions. Dianna first offered me the HOT ROD editorship circa 1997, and I turned it down because I wasn't ready for the corporate pressure. Under all those guys, the president of the division was John Dianna, proud of his reputation as a tyrant.
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